Monday 21st September, 20099
Purrvaja Jayakumar - 8 years
Hindu Ladies College
Ranul Seneviratne - 10 years
St. Thomas’ Prep School
Parami Danwatte - 7 years
Musaeus College
Oshana De Mel - 8 years
Ladies’ College
Hannah Somasundaram - 14 years
Gateway College
Kiran Muthukrishnan - 7 years
Logos College, Colombo 6
Thisuri Samarasinghe - 13 years
Lyceum Int. School, Nugegoda
Kanchini Chandrasiri - 7 years
Musaeus College
Zainab Akbarally - 7 years
Ladies’ College
Inesh Gooneratne - 11 years
St. Thomas’ Prep School
Mevindu Perera - 8 years
Lyceum Int. School, Nugegoda
Talya Cassim - 11 years
Lyceum Int. School, Nugegoda
welve students of renowned
artist, Mrs. Latifa Ismail, will
hold an exhibition of paintings,
titled Joyful Expressions, with the aim
of reaching out and helping “people
who are not as lucky as they are”, on
September 26 and 27, at the Lionel
Wendt Art Gallery, Colombo.
Kiran, one of the 12 students of
Mrs Ismail, already knows about
Leonard Cheshire Disability, the charity organization that will receive the
majority of the proceeds of this exhibition. According to him, the LC centre “helps people who can’t walk, talk
or see to fight for the things they
need.” While Talya hopes to help the
“differently abled people who need
money more the we do, because even a
little will go a long way!”
According to their website, Leonard
Cheshire Disability works with over
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Joyful expressions
250 independently managed disability
organisations in 54 countries. Their
programmes support people with disabilities and push disability up political and development agendas.
The exhibition will also pave the
way for a 13-year-old girl with Down
Syndrome, to display her drawings
and paintings. Whilst painting will be
therapeutic for this spirited young
girl, the joy that lights up her eyes
when she sits, totally absorbed, in
front of her painting, gives added
meaning to this venture.
Although all the children are aware
of the charity aspect of the exhibition, they are also excited at the
prospect of exhibiting their talents to
relatives/friends and to see their
work, on a wall.
Posed with the query, why they love
to paint, these kids came up with
some wonderful responses;
Says Kiran, “Painting makes my
imagination go”. And Ranul is happy
to paint because - his mind is relaxed
when he paints and it gives him a
peaceful feeling”
His thoughts are echoed by
Hannah, who finds the freedom painting gives her to be “exhilarating”.
Zainab, loves mixing colours and
experimenting with different tools.
She says she enjoys painting “even
more than playing outdoors”!
“I love to paint because it’s fun and
exciting,” says Mevindu, while
Oshana and Thisuri simply feel happy
to be able to paint. Purrvaja’s interest
lies in “finding new colours” while
Inesh paints as a hobby and feels that
the exhibition is “a beautiful event
since all the children worked together.”
I also saw how painting brings out
more than inborn creativity in these
young artists. Parami and Kanchini
love to gift their work, an act that
brings happiness to both the giver and
the recipient. Comes a pat response
from Kanchini, “I want to be an artist
when I grow up, so I have to paint!”.
As simple as that!
To put the kids and their mothers’
thoughts on painting, into a nutshell,
these exuberant youngsters are transformed, their minds happy and
relaxed, when they sit in front of their
easels, and take their brushes to their
hands. To this, all the mothers are
grateful to the gentle guidance of Mrs.
Ismail.
Cable drama Mad Men aims to
repeat Emmy history
ised to keep the scheduled
three-hour ceremony snappy,
but they had less room to
maneuver than planned. A TV
academy proposal to pre-tape
some acceptances and show
them in a truncated version gaining time for something
more entertaining than speeches - was quashed by industry
opposition.
Harris also was a supporting
actor nominee for How I Met
Your Mother. Others competing
for Emmy gold included Bryan
Cranston of AMC's Breaking
Bad and Glenn Close of FX's
Worker Kristen Merlino places a picture of actress Holly Hunter
into assigned seating inside the Nokia Theatre prior to the 61st
Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, Wednesday Sept. 16, 2009 in
Los Angeles. The Emmys are scheduled for Sunday. (AP Photo)
LOS ANGELES - Mad Men
aimed to repeat Emmy history
Sunday (20), while Family Guy
tried to make it.
The first basic cable show
to win a top series honor, Mad
Men had the chance for a second consecutive best-drama
trophy. Potential trailblazer
Family Guy was the first animated series to vie for the best
comedy award since a 1961 bid
by The Flintstones.
The Fox show was up
against last year's winner,
actress-writer Tina Fey's 30
Rock, trying for its third consecutive award in the category.
Fey and co-star Alec Baldwin
had a chance to repeat as best
comedy series leads.
Neil Patrick Harris was prepared to play the singing host,
as he did at this year's Tonys.
Hairspray composers Scott
Wittman and Marc Shaiman,
who dashed off a custom-made
tune for Harris at the
Broadway awards, wrote one
for the Emmys.
The TV academy, meanwhile, hoped to avoid an
unwanted rerun at the 61st
Annual Primetime Emmy
Awards: paltry viewership.
The 2008 ceremony was the
least-watched ever with an
audience of 12.3 million.
Acclaimed but low-rated
series like AMC's retro 1960s
show Mad Men are seen as one
reason viewers bypassed the
awards, so major categories
were expanded to increase the
odds for more popular fare.
There were as many as seven
nominees per category, com-
Damages, the 2008 winners for
best drama series leads.
Mad Men stars Jon Hamm
and Elisabeth Moss were among
their competition.
HBO went into the ceremony
as the awards leader after last
weekend's
Creative
Arts
Primetime Emmys ceremony for
technical and other achievements. The channel earned 16
trophies, followed by NBC with
11 and Fox and ABC with eight
awards each. CBS, PBS and
Cartoon Network had six each.
(AP)
Nadanoopa 2009
The Sri Lanka Book Publishers’ Association (SLBPA) selected Podu Purushaya written
by Sunethra Rajakarunanayake as the best novel of the year for the ‘Swarna Pusthaka
Award 2008’. Here, Public Administration and Home Affairs Minister Dr Sarath
Amunugama presents the award to Mrs Rajakarunanayake while the Chairman of the
SLBPA, Ariyadasa Weeraman looks on at the ceremony held at the BMICH recently. Pic
by Dharmasena Welipitiya
pared with the traditional five.
Rising network star Jim
Parsons of CBS' Big Bang
Theory made the cut for best
comedy series actor, but niche
premium cable shows including HBO's Flight of the
Conchords and Showtime's
Weeds grabbed a hefty share of
nods.
TV's most-watched comedy,
CBS' Two and a Half Men,
failed to score a best series
In this Sept. 12, 2009 file
photo, Tina Fey arrives at
the Creative Arts Emmy
Awards in Los Angeles.
(AP Photo)
bid, although stars Charlie
Sheen and Jon Cryer were up
for awards.
Fox's American Idol, the
most-watched show, tries to
earn its first reality competition show Emmy against dominant winner CBS' The
Amazing Race.
Harris and Emmy executive
producer Don Mischer prom-
Nadanoopa 2009, the annual concert of the Makola, Dinendra Dance
School will be staged at the John De Silva Memorial Theater in
Colombo at 5.30 p.m. on Friday (25). The concert will stage acts titled
Aavedduma, Giridevi, Sabaragamu Koho Vannama, Pantheru, Folk
Dance, Group and Solo drum beatings. The themes were from the
Proprietor of the Dance School, Dance Teacher of the Kelaniya Helena
Wijewardene Girls School, Gayani Dharamsena, former senior dance
teacher at the Sapugaskanda Maha Vidyalaya Jayanthi Saparamadu
and Dance Teacher of the IDM International School, Makola Nayana
Hettiarachchi. Commenced with five students in 1994, the Dinendra
Dance School today has 150 students. The Nadanoopa annual concert
is a stage for the top students to showcase their talents, a press
release issued by the School said.
This year’s
Arts and
Sculpture
Exhibition
titled Fushion
2009 of
Hillwood
College,
Kandy will
take place on
September 25
and 26, at the
College
Auditorium.
The exhibition
will display a
vast range of
artistic expressions using oil
and acrylic on
different mediums and a
selection
sculpture
made of various materials.
The picture is
one of the
exhibits at the
Fushion 2009.
Pic by Cyril
Wimalasurendre